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Cognizant
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This was my first company and it was a good start of my career. I had some great people and colleagues in my team so that created a good environment for working there. The exposure to work with different people in India and outside of India was also there. I good some good projects to work on and learn. There also have good trainingprograms from time to time. Salary wise I found it to be a little average but they would provide some opportunity to move abroad after spending some time in Cognizant. The career growth was average but not bad....Read More
Salary was average. Also there was a little lack innovation. At times a rigid system. I didn't like HR, they hardly seem to ever address the concerns of employees, had very bad policy of employee retention , let many good employees go easily.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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IT Consulting Department
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Software Development Department
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Nothing to like except to learn how to survive in toxic management.
Never ever join cognizant those who have had technical skills, dreams to thrive in career also have family responsibilities as Cognizant job security is Zero. Projects are surrendered and handled by incapable management. Anytime one can be off boarded from project even though performing well.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Growth and carrier opportunity. Bucket of benefits is adjustable which is good. Quality work and new skills learning opportunity
Work culture is not good. Team size is always minimised. Managers are too demanding. No work life balance
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Working environment in every project differs. My starting project was very well employee friendly. Leave policies are good here.
Some projects do micro management. You will get irritated by management.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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Cognizant have lot of job opportunities and provide nice pay according to market standards. People working in cognizant can switch to other technology and work on it.
Hikes are very less when compare to other companies. Due to internal politics talented people efforts are recognised.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Will get salary that is ok
But if you give more importance to mental health than salary don't join this company. You are literally a slave of the client and no body will speak for you.. and if your too lucky to get a client like Novartis(pharmaceutical company) and especially get into celonis tool project then you can say bye bye to your mental health and just hug the salary you get and stay. Working hard is not the issue but the politics they play and the slavery you guys will experience is more than what was done in the colonization period. Hope everyone understands my mental health state currently and would deeply analyze before joining cognizant or Novartis....Read More
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Accounting & Taxation Department
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Salary is to less compared with other organisations. No proper hikes
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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Work life balance is good. Job satisfaction is also fair. Company pays fair enough. I am not satisfied or I should say I am not impressed with the appraisal procedure implemented by the management. Post 1 year no appraisal at all or the performance bonus. They have their own way of doing it in the month of July or August and it doesn’t matter when you have completed 1 year.
Appraisal and performance bonus payout .
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Service Delivery Department
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Auto Promotion seems to be a good thing however, I didn't get it as I am completely 2 years with organization
No HR representative transperancy to contact, I thought that every employee tries to avoid the risk from doing the task
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Software Development Department
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I got offer during pandemic as fresher since then I worked remotely which helped me.
The promotion and salary hike is not as per the employee performance
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Non Voice Department
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Its completely dependent on the Manager you are reporting to, but ideally the evironment is not great. The senior managment doesn't know how to lead by example. They are trying to enfore work, they are in frenzy
Senior management isn't great. They are just reacting to different situations, but ideally no proper governance.
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IT Support Department
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Have no good project. And they throw you off after bench period. All they have is some service desk project which even 12th standard can do. Also work is more hours and you get only 5 hours to sleep.
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
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Banking Operations Department
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Best think is transport allowance . You will get daily 340 rs if ur not using company transport and coming by self
Promotion percent was only 4 % for top rating last year
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Data Science & Machine Learning Department
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Job security is good here. Your process gets change only if you are unable to perform well in any manager expectations. Skill development totally depends on the team leader but I'm sure everyone can show off or polish their skills here.
No work life balance. HR is so rude when you asks for work from home in serious situation. Salary is too less for the work. Promotions are fixed even if you perform better you only get promoted after a certain time that also depend on your team lead likings.
Work policy: Depending on manager
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Software Development Department
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The work life balance is pretty good for me, but again that depends on the project you are into.
Everything was good until the new CEO Ravi Kumar taken over. Promotions are halted, yearly hikes are dropped.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Finance Department
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Good pay and simple payment structure also performance appraisal system is best
Work life balance, pressure job security is a bit of concern
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Corporate Training Department
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I like the current role in the organisation and the company culture
The payment, hikes and promotion for the business support team is below industry standards
Work policy: 8 days a month
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Customer Success Department
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I liked the ambience and my colleagues in my healthcare domain we used to call by names and not by Sir or Madam Cognizant given me when it comes to personal growth
Many things I dislike about Cognizant that is their washrooms were not clean and planetary area. Everywhere there are cockroaches. The management here is good, but favourite ism and in equality among employees was done based on the religion criteria and not everyone was treated fairly not speaking in regional language Taking cooked up meetings when there is any sick leave taken with document’s but not approved by Manager, then it would be considered as LOP. I still remember an escalation was done by me by a behaviour of my SME. But when I mentioned the same to a manager, he stated he will surely look into this and the next moment, I saw him laughing with my Sm. There was no action taken, and this was the only conclusion we got over the same, where that SME even got the warning letter now, Soni is going to be the deal because of inequality...Read More
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Opportunities to learn, security of job
Management will not care about your problems. Salary is low compared to competitors. They'll change your project at September and for year end rating they'll simply say we haven't got chance to fully understand your capabilities as you've recently joined in the project. Every year this loop continues. No matter how hard you work or how many appreciations you get from client. "The more number of days you're in the same LOB, the more rating you'll get." (This is the excuse I've got when I questioned about the rating, despite having multiple client appreciations). This demotivates for sure!...Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Software Development Department
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Training Team and the way the trainer taught us.
Salary payslip which shows one amount in the payslip and one amount get credited in account of the month December
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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IT Consulting Department
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Being big company generally we get projects after one project finishes. Since last year started to focus on training
No benefit of certifications. Is pure luck to get project on new tech. No one cares for your progress. Only project work matters. Employee benefit are below average.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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